The Linda Lindas’ ideal L.A. Sunday includes vintage shops, boba
In Sunday Funday, L.A. folks give us a play-by-play of their splendid Sunday round city. Discover concepts and inspiration on the place to go, what to eat and how one can get pleasure from life on the weekends.
Because the Linda Lindas wooed music lovers with a commanding efficiency of their music “Racist, Sexist Boy” on the Los Angeles Public Library almost two years in the past — the video now has greater than 1.5 million views on YouTube — their life has been something however chill.
The all-girl punk band — a mixture of sisters, cousins and chosen household starting from ages 12 to 18 — opened for the Yeah Yeah Yeahs’ tour together with Japanese Breakfast final yr, carried out on “Jimmy Kimmel Reside!” and starred in Amy Poehler’s 2021 movie, “Moxie.” In addition they had been featured on NPR’s revered Tiny Desk collection and, in December, performed their largest hometown present but on the Fonda Theatre to advertise their debut album, “Rising Up.”
The band did a “lot of exhibits” final yr, “so it [felt] like a giant celebration with buddies,” says 16-year-old Lucia de la Garza, reflecting on their hometown present.
“We received to have an after-party on the roof,” Eloise Wong, 14, provides enthusiastically.
“All our buddies had been there and it was actually enjoyable,” says 12-year-old Mila de la Garza.
This spring, the L.A.-born quartet shall be hitting the highway with Paramore for his or her U.S. tour and performing on the Coachella Valley Music and Arts Competition in Indio for the primary time.
Between balancing their skyrocketing music careers with their social lives and schoolwork — 18-year-old Bela Salazar graduated from highschool in June — the Linda Lindas have gotten used to managing their loaded calendars.
Over the past couple of years, Sundays have usually been reserved for apply, however the Linda Lindas cherish spending time collectively each on and offstage.
The band’s excellent Sunday in L.A. seems to be rather a lot just like the spooky music video for his or her music “Speaking to Myself,” which exhibits them visiting a number of of their favourite locations (minus the vengeful dolls coming to life). The Linda Lindas’ rundown of their splendid Sunday, which is brimming with suggestions, has been edited for size and readability.
8:30 a.m.: Have a sleepover, then race to Cindy’s diner for breakfast in our PJs
Bela Salazar (guitar, vocals): We’d have a sleepover at Lucia and Mila’s home, then get up to go to breakfast at Cindy’s in Eagle Rock.
Lucia de la Garza (guitar, vocals): We’d exit and we’d be sporting our pajamas.
Bela: This isn’t breakfast, however I’d eat it for breakfast: I just like the falafel there. Additionally, a slice of apple pie.
Mila de la Garza (drums, percussion and vocals): They don’t serve this there for breakfast, however I might get the spaghetti with no meatballs.
Eloise Wong (bass, vocals): Possibly Bela wouldn’t end her meals so I’d simply type of eat off of her plate.
Lucia: I’m getting French toast and likewise a aspect of potatoes.
Bela: Cindy’s could be very chill, cozy and shiny.
Lucia: And the Key lime pie is superb there.
Mila: I’d order a glass of orange juice. I’m an orange juice individual.
Lucia: She has orange juice on our [tour] rider, so we at all times have orange juice within the inexperienced room.
Eloise: There’s a lot orange juice! Like two jugs of it after which each present we play once we’re on tour, we simply accumulate a lot orange juice.
10:15 a.m.: Classic buying in Northeast L.A.
Lucia: We’re going to a classic store to get some new outfits.
Eloise: Bela is driving!
Bela: I understand how to drive — simply not effectively [laughs]. We like Chief of the Pack on York Boulevard in Highland Park.
Lucia: Chief of the Pack has quite a lot of actually cool shows of stuff.
Mila: And equipment.
Lucia: We additionally like Kiki Stash …
Eloise: … If we’re on the lookout for one thing particular.
Bela: It takes us endlessly to buy.
Lucia: I discover like two issues after which I choose one, and anticipate them to complete.
Bela: We’d spend an hour and a half in every retailer.
2 p.m.: Espresso and boba break
Bela: I would want a espresso. If we’re in Highland Park, then there’s one place that I’ll break my pockets for: Civil Espresso on Figueroa Road. I’m attempting to chop out espresso, however that’s the one place that will get an exception. I get the Figueroa drink. There’s Mexican cookies known as Marias and so they put it on prime, and it has cinnamon. Or they’ve good matcha there.
Lucia: The remainder of us don’t actually drink espresso.
Eloise: I feel we must always get boba at Minon Cake [in Chinatown].
Lucia: Lately, I received a coconut strawberry drink, however I’m feeling a bit extra chill on Sundays. So I really feel like a daily taro, half candy, much less ice, with pudding and no boba.
Mila: I’ve lately been getting a lychee inexperienced tea with lychee coconut jelly and boba, half candy.
Lucia: Minon Muffins’ crepe muffins are additionally good. We just like the mango [flavor].
Eloise: I simply get jasmine tea with boba.
2:30 p.m.: Lunch at Jade Wok
Lucia: After getting boba, we’re going to go to Jade Wok, which is a restaurant in Chinatown.
Eloise: We might undoubtedly get their tofu as a result of they make it there. We’d get the one with the meat sauce on it.
Bela: They’ve Thai tea there, proper?
Eloise: However we simply received boba!
Bela: However I would want my second one [laughs].
Eloise: No matter drink you get is purchase one, get one free, so we’d get two Thai teas for the value of 1.
Bela: So I’d get a Thai tea. We’ll must cease at the very least 4 occasions for my caffeine. That’s a day-to-day factor for me.
Lucia: I’m saving mine for later. And Mila likes the tomato egg from Jade Wok.
Eloise: We additionally like their spare ribs.
Bela: I’ll eat the ribs. Mila is totally vegetarian. Eloise and Lucia eat meat typically.
Lucia: I don’t eat crimson meat.
Bela: I eat every part.
3:30 p.m.: Sing throwback songs at Max Karaoke Studio
Eloise: We’re going to do karaoke at Max Karaoke Studio.
Mila: [Some of our go-to songs are] “Dancing Queen” by ABBA.
Eloise: “Soiled Deeds Carried out Grime Low-cost” by AC/DC.
Lucia: “Ladies Simply Wish to Have Enjoyable” by Cindy Lauper.
Mila: We additionally do a couple of songs all collectively.
4:30 p.m.: A fast dessert break within the Japanese Village Plaza Mall
Lucia: We’d go to Cafe Dulce. They’ve doughnut-type issues. Bela isn’t a doughnut individual.
Eloise: I really feel like I might be full.
Mila: I might get a water [laughs]. I’m not an enormous doughnut individual both, so I would as an alternative stroll to the matcha place for matcha soft-serve ice cream. It’s so good.
Lucia: At Cafe Dulce, the dinosaur eggs are good. They’re not very candy and so they’re type of chewy. They’ve type of a mochi dough texture. All of their stuff is nice.
4:45 p.m.: Drive to Pasadena to go to Vroman’s Bookstore
Lucia: Let’s go to Pasadena. I need to go to Vroman’s Bookstore.
Bela: Vroman’s has a espresso store [laughs].
Mila: And good books.
Lucia: I feel Vroman’s retains very up to date on new books which are popping out. There’s like a inexperienced colour palette occurring, which is at all times good.
Mila: Inexperienced is my favourite colour. And our first present because the Linda Lindas was there. I’d get a young-adult fantasy guide.
Lucia: I often persist with fiction, however typically I stray from that. I learn rather a lot. Proper now, I’m studying a short-story assortment that I received in Chicago known as “Medusa’s Ankles” and likewise “A Research in Charlotte,” which is a extra current-day retelling of the Sherlock Holmes guide.
5:45 p.m.: Curler-skating at Moonlight Rollerway
Mila: We’d go to Moonlight Rollerway.
Bela: It’s a basic.
Lucia: It’s not a great place to go when it’s actually sizzling.
Bela: However all people has their birthday events there.
Mila: I had a birthday celebration there after I was like 5.
7:45 p.m.: Dinner at Rosty Peruvian Meals earlier than a present
Lucia: We’re going to Rosty Peruvian Meals on Figueroa Road. The rice and beans are good. They get the plantains.
Bela: Additionally, their lomo saltado and the chicha morada drink.
Lucia: We’d eat at Rosty as a result of it’s like down the road from the Lodge Room.
Eloise: And in some way Sleater-Kinney can be enjoying there. The opening band would begin in all probability round 9 p.m. or one thing after which it could be performed round midnight.
12 a.m.: Watch “Dwelling Alone” and eat Jeni’s Splendid Ice Cream
Lucia: Then we’d every seize a pint of ice cream from Jeni’s Splendid Ice Cream.
Mila: We higher not have college the following day.
Bela: I like Brambleberry Crisp.
Mila: I just like the Savannah Buttermint one. That one is seasonal, however on our splendid Sunday, they’d have it.
Lucia: Eloise likes the Brown Butter Almond Brittle one. My go-to is the Wildberry Lavender.
Mila: I might go to sleep throughout the film and within the automobile. I’d eat my ice cream later.
